Announcements (Notice Board)
Post notices that learners see inside your platform — with targeting, priority, pinning, scheduling, and read tracking.
The notice board is the simplest way to tell learners something inside your platform. You write a notice, choose who should see it, and publish. It appears for those people when they sign in — no email or phone needed. Notices are perfect for class updates, holiday notices, schedule changes, and reminders.
Notices show up only inside your platform. If you want a message to reach an inbox, a phone, or a chat app, use Campaigns instead.
What a notice can include
- A title and a body (with formatted text).
- An optional thumbnail image.
- Optional file attachments — for example a PDF schedule or a slide deck.
- A priority — low, normal, high, or urgent.
- A target audience — everyone, or a specific group of people.
How to post a notice
- Go to Admin → Communication → Notices.
- Click New Notice.
- Enter a title and write the body.
- Optionally add a thumbnail and any file attachments.
- Choose the audience (see below).
- Set the priority.
- Choose to publish now, save as a draft, or schedule it for a later date.
- Click Save (or Publish).
Choosing who sees it
You decide exactly who a notice reaches. Pick one of these:
| Audience | Who sees it |
|---|---|
| Everyone | All your learners and team members. |
| By role | For example, only instructors, or only learners. |
| By course | Only people enrolled in a chosen course. |
| By quiz | People connected to a specific quiz. |
| By event | People connected to a specific event. |
| By learning path | People in a chosen learning path. |
| By cohort | People in a chosen cohort group. |
| Specific individuals | A handpicked list of people. |
Draft, scheduled, or published
Every notice is in one of three states:
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Draft | Saved but not visible to anyone yet. Keep working on it. |
| Scheduled | Set to appear automatically on a future date you choose. |
| Published | Live now — the people you targeted can see it. |
Priority
Priority signals how important a notice is. Higher-priority notices stand out more in the learner's notice list.
- Low — minor, optional reading.
- Normal — the usual setting.
- High — important; worth noticing.
- Urgent — needs attention right away.
Pin to the top and set an expiry
- Pin a notice to keep it at the top of the list, above newer notices. Good for an important notice you want everyone to keep seeing.
- Set an optional expiry date. After that date the notice hides itself automatically, so old notices do not pile up.
Read tracking and acknowledgement
You can see who has read a notice and when.
- For each notice, open it to see a list of who has read it and the time they read it.
- You can optionally require acknowledgement — this asks the learner to confirm they have read the notice, which is useful for policy or safety notices.
What the learner sees
- Learners see a notice bell with an unread count.
- Opening it shows their notices, newest (and pinned) first, with the priority shown.
- A learner can mark one notice as read, or mark all as read at once.
- Notices also appear on the platform calendar, so a learner can spot them by date.
Finding and managing notices
In Admin → Communication → Notices you can:
- Filter and search by audience, priority, status, who created it, or whether it is pinned.
- Edit or delete a notice.
- Bulk delete several notices at once.
- Export your notices to a spreadsheet (CSV) for your own records.
Notices are in-app only. To reach people by email, SMS, push, or chat, post a Campaign — you can even mirror an announcement to those channels there.
Good to know
- A scheduled notice goes live on its own — you do not need to come back and publish it.
- Pin the few notices that truly matter; if everything is pinned, nothing stands out.
- Use By course or By cohort targeting to avoid bothering people a notice does not apply to.